http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0s7yYA6PUk

Eheh. You might like these. They are not perfect but it's nice to hear.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZzOhp5fYGA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubOa_EyafaU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NtqEKTD_os
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-M0zqi8GrQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaDrva5-lAY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYtx1gXGaBY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DnSiJ57l6E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgP1_-tv_hU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lT4TWPw7wpM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuhgMaF44y0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoKRZytu5QQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K14dvr16iPM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxg5W9uJrTU

I haven't received my plus yet.

classic or classical?

sorry got mindfucked when writing the title. Classical

flight of the bumblebee

classic music is such a broad term, it's like asking for rockmusic, one person will post creed, one will post electic wizard

or asking for electronic, where one will post µ-ziq and the other scooter

generally you can start with the big composers of the eras to find out which style you like most

baroque, classicism, romanticism, contemporary/20th century

if you like the piano then baroque is probably not for you because piano didnt exist at that point, my favorite composer from that time is probably vivaldi

classicism is all about mozart and later beethoven, that era is a bit too dry for my taste, too much concerto, not enough emotion. but it layed the foundation for

romanticism, so much to choose from.. chopin and claude debussy you name it. has some of the greatest emotional piaono pieces

i don't know any contemporary composers

take all that with a grain of salt because i got all my "knowledge" about classical music from youtube where i searched for the names of the different eras

some piano links:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZUw78FXpG4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vna-_bCgb70
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvFH_6DNRCY

if you like the piano then baroque is probably not for you because piano didnt exist at that point, my favorite composer from that time is probably vivaldi

A lot of Bach pieces are played on the piano nowadays though. Dunno about other composers.

The modern piano didn't exist in the baroque period yet, but it's predecessors (harpsichord and pipeorgan) did, and it is for these instruments that Bach wrote a number of pieces (look for The Well Tempered Clavier). Since the layout was pretty much the same as the modern day piano the conversion was pretty easy.

EDIT: clavecimbel = harpsichord (more commonly used)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho9rZjlsyYY

Bach is awesome

Some of my favourites :

Vivaldi - Four seasons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRxofEmo3HA

Mozart - Requiem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5Y2B55nKZY

Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Tr0otuiQuU

Tchaikovsky - The Nutcracker Suite
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8J8urC_8Jw

Grieg - In the Hall of the Mountain King
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLp_Hh6DKWc

Wagner - Ride Of The Valkyries
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGU1P6lBW6Q

And the very best of them all :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

my favourite piano piece atm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbbYKEodp0Y

If you like piano music you should definitely get recordings of Chopin's nocturnes played by Vladimir Ashkenazy and some of his waltzes played by Rubinstein. And/or Debussy played by Noriko Ogawa.

And of course Beethoven and Bach. Can never have enough Beethoven or Bach in your life.

Mozart - "Leck mich im Arsch" (literally "Lick me in the arse")
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C78HBp-Youk

I like yann tiersen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNzzF0M5hB0 or this version perhaps, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVjTdMCi6tM, yundi li is bawlin' too

ravels bolero for f***ing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aXwTPQQ1_U


I know it's fucked up, but once i start i can't stop listening to Pachelbels canon in D, here with original instruments: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvNQLJ1_HQ0

edit: I felt i should probably add my favourite of the day, this prokofiev piano concerto played by Yuja Wang: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDfGBmbNbMw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2uOGOqIyC4

hf

mahler! :)

Mykola Leontovych - Ukranian Bell Carol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiGUL5Tfl_w

Jenkins - Allegretto
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGKumFcd0Yk

Not really classical but beautiful nonetheless

Nick Drake - Way To Blue
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhN429QPKxI
Nick Drake - River Man
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idcaRTg4-fM

and piano version of Way To Blue for bonus potat:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S40DdlD9JxI

I don't like to share my classical music tastes. Too personal.
All I will say is, hearing it played by a live orchestra with good seats adds a new dimensions you do not get with a recording.

so share some classical music that you don't like

Too personal.

DAT BAIT

Have a Tchaikovsky instead!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxHkLdQy5f0

very true!
hearing orchestra instruments working live is magic.

bach - fourth chord air (aria sulla quarta corda)
morricone - gabriel's oboe
j. williams - theme from jurassic park
mozart - k545 (sonata in do maggiore)
grieg - morning (from peer gynt)

classical heavy: howe, kuprij - why (high definition album)

Sofronitsky playing Scriabin Etudes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6I1pNZta8I

Richter playing Schumann Symphonic Etudes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lTeaDtNI9c (probably one of the best solo piano recordings out there. The Symphonic Etudes are of the highest difficulty for the instrument not only technically but in terms of endurance; I've watched professionals struggle with this on stage.)

Someone said piano?
Maxence Cyrin - Where Is My Mind

Also classical:
Greensleeves

Moving away from piano, some contemporary:
Zoe Keating - Escape Artist

maxences version of windowlicker (aphex twin) is even better!

Bizet !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUTD86ocblc

Brahms

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3X9LvC9WkkQ

Janos Starker - Kodály - He is so pro.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MEUIGjfHNw

Has anyone posted any Yiruma? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-4wUfZD6oc

Yes, you.

Yiruma :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=so6ExplQlaY

Not sure if it classifies as classical music... i'd say new age piano music :p

then i feel like posting tequila and bonetti outro:

loose and breezy modern piano playing - anything from Philip Aaberg or Liz Story (Windham Hill artists -- one of the oldest 'new age music' labels around)
For some reason the past several years I keep coming back to Arvo Pärt. Challenging music.

p.s. Henryk Górecki (just a part of the Symphony #3 and of course sung by Dawn Upshaw)

Claude Debussy Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Corner
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pr%C3%A9ludes_%28Debussy%29
http://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/...um/1096767
ARTURO BENEDETTI MICHELANGELI - CLAUDE DEBUSSY - CHILDREN´S CORNER

Rachmaninov Ashkenazy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachmaninov#Works
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89tudes-Tableaux
I have 2&4Piano Concerto with him & RCO
Rachmaninov DECCA 417 671-2 Corelli Variations Op42, Etudes Tableaux Op39, Vladimir Ashkenazy
Great Pianists Of The 20th Century Sampler 462 645-2 2CD

Mikhail Pletnev Mussorgsky
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Pletnev#Life_and_career
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pictures_at_an_Exhibition

Why Michelangeli? IMO he plays Debussy too strict, if you get what I mean.

He is known to play the best Debussy >8-)
I don't have CD's from him but i like Childerens Corner

I saw once a documentation about him, it is not my opinion

www.google.de/search?q=Sibelius+violin+concer...in+perlman

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41VD8M2KABL._SX300_.jpg

Beethoven 7. Symphony 2. Movement Alegretto:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uOxOgm5jQ4

One of my favorite pianists, Hélčne Grimaud:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6Mfszm9QRc

THE GREAT GATE OF KIEV:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwrqAipON2w

(this is a transcription, original written for piano, can't find the best recording on the web right now, hope this will do for the moment..)

And more contemporary I really like listening to Didier Squiban:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iSJhxvYIKc&a...1D9E7DA6E6


or Jacques Loussiers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6u4mHl1Db3g

He's famous for improvising over classics, like Bach, Chopin or Satie with his Jacques Loussiers Trio. Genius.

Agustin Barrios Mangore - La Catedral ; Choro Da Saudade.

in the hall of the mountain king,edvard grieg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQEywzR4QbM&am...5AAE4C549C

What part of "classical" you didn't understand? :p

ehelo))

http://youtu.be/_M0boaBa6QM

beauty

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7Eeeh1IqVE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uApiRD7GB8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_d...s650#t=12s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_d...UmSng#t=8s

Never understood why i never liked the classics even tho i enjoy orchestral sounds, anyone have an idea?(no not you Jamerio)

Example of what i like


Ill add this as it one of my favs by the same composer

my personal favourite:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V60USaluxGA (Chopin - Nocturnes)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9Lk5vuDwe8&am...AB015C8CD8
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